The Franklin Conspiracy
Автор: Jeffrey Blair Latta
Год издания: 0000
The Franklin Conspiracy is an absorbing account of the single most enigmatic event in Canadian history. In 1845, two British Royal Navy ships, the Erebus and the Terror, commanded by Sir John Franklin, entered the Canadian Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage. Neither ship returned. A fifteen-year search uncovered evidence of unparalleled disaster, but to this day no one knows exactly how the 129 men of the Franklin Expedition met their deaths. Although the expedition did not run out of food, there is clear evidence of cannibalism. The ships carried two hundred message cylinders with them, yet failed to leave records. Stranger still, an earlier explorer, Thomas Simpson, was reputedly murdered for the «secret of the Northwest Passage.» What was this «secret»? The Franklin Conspiracy is an exhaustively researched, compellingly reasoned answer to that question. The result is a shocking saga of conspiracy, cover-up, and unbelievable secrets the.
Memoires de la vie privee de Benjamin Franklin
Автор: Бенджамин Франклин
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Полный вариант заголовка: «Memoires de la vie privee de Benjamin Franklin : ecrits par lui-meme et adresses a son fils : suivis d'un precis historique de sa vie politique, et de plusieurs pieces, relatives a ce Pere de la Liberte».
Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin. Vol. 1
Автор: Бенджамин Франклин
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin : Vol. 1 : now first published from the original MSS. compising the private correspondence and public negotiations of Dr. Franklin, and a selection from his political, philosophical and miscellaneous works / written by himself to a late period, and continued to the time of his death, by his grandson, William Temple Franklin».
Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin. Vol. 3
Автор: Бенджамин Франклин
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Полный вариант заголовка: «Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin : Vol. 3 : now first published from the original MSS. compising the private correspondence and public negotiations of Dr. Franklin, and a selection from his political, philosophical and miscellaneous works / written by himself to a late period, and continued to the time of his death, by his grandson, William Temple Franklin».